Current Speakers

Alexis DePree joined Nordstrom in 2020 as the executive vice president and chief supply chain officer. In 2021, Alexis became a member of the executive team where she continues to scale Nordstrom’s market strategy to better serve customers on their terms, gain market share and increase inventory efficiencies. She supports the company’s supply chain operations, transportation and logistics, network planning and flow, supply chain planning and performance and supply chain engineering organizations. Alexis and her team are focused on ensuring that Nordstrom’s supply chain delivers differentiated experiences to customers through service and convenience – both today and into the future.

Throughout her career, Alexis has led critical, enterprise-wide businesses through strong collaboration, qualitative and quantitative decision-making and engaging talent management. She is passionate about solving the complex problems that face supply chains focused on evolving to meet the future of customer-focused fulfillment. 

Prior to Nordstrom, Alexis spent almost four years with Amazon as a vice president in two different roles. In her first role with Amazon she had responsibility for global supply chain planning, global supplier operations and Amazon Business supply chain. In 2017, Alexis transitioned to lead the Americas sort center network which included over 45 sites across North America responsible for injecting billions of packages into the last mile carrier network. She also led a planning organization to optimize for end-to-end package flow to achieve strong delivery and financial performance.

Alexis was previously with Target Corporation from 2007 to 2016 where she held a variety of positions with increasing leadership across supply chain. In her last role she led an organization comprised of fulfillment strategy and operations, supply chain analytics, network strategy and engineering and facilities to optimize Target’s supply chain to support in-store and direct-to-customer fulfillment. Prior to Target, Alexis was with Dell Computer in Austin for four years. She held roles in supplier management, new services development and customer service management. 

Alexis holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has been an active participant in the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) and is an enthusiastic speaker on supply chain and women’s leadership. Outside of work, Alexis is married with three young children.